#brian leckner

[sigurism]

Someone needs to know the truth

Travelers 5.15 The X-Files Dir: William A. Graham

[agendaculturaldelima]

 #ProyeccionDeVida

🌎 Cine Club del Banco de la Nación, presenta:

🎬 “FRECUENCIA MORTAL (Nunca juegues con extraños)” [Joy Ride]

🔎 Género: Thriller / Terror / Slasher / Road Movie / Asesinos en serie

⌛️ Duración: 96 minutos

✍️ Guión: Clay Tarver y J.J. Abrams

📷 Fotografía: Jeff Jur

🎼 Música: Marco Beltrami

💥 Argumento: Han empezado las vacaciones y Lewis está listo para marcharse en coche con Venna, la chica de sus sueños, que acaba de romper con su novio. Pero sus planes se van al traste cuando tiene que desviarse para recoger a Fuller, su hermano mayor, famoso por meterse en líos, que ha vuelto a hacer de las suyas.

👥 Reparto: Steve Zahn (Fuller Thomas), Paul Walker (Lewis Thomas), Leelee Sobieski (Venna Wilcox), Jessica Bowman (Charlotte), Jim Beaver (Sheriff Ritter), Basil Wallace (Vendedor de automóviles), Michael McCleery (Oficial Akins), Brian Leckner (Oficial Keeney), Stuart Stone (Danny), Kenneth White (Ronald Ellinghouse) y Jay Hernandez (Marine)

📢 Dirección: John Dahl

© Productoras: Regency Enterprises, Regency Enterprises, Bad Robot & LivePlanet

🌎 País: Estados Unidos

📅 Año: 2001

📽 Proyección:

📆 Miércoles 24 de Abril

🕡 6:30pm. 

🎥 Auditorio Artes de la Nación (av. Javier Prado Este 2499, 5º piso - San Borja)

🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ Ingreso libre, previa reserva: https://info.bn.com.pe/CineclubBN_Miercoles

[thalkonvotes]

Democratic Party

** Formed in 1848, the Democratic National Committee has been the home base for the Democratic Party, one of the oldest political parties in the United States

The Democratic Party is focused on advancing their Democratic Platform and looking for positive solutions that include everyone.

Their stance on, what would be considered, issues for major political debate would be:

Every person in this nation should be treated with dignity and respect

Health care is a right for all

Hard work of middle class families should be rewarded

Schools and streets should be free from gun violence

Women should be able to make decisions about her own body

Candidates

Aaron M. He (A: 4/26/23; Insufficient Funds)

Adam Ouariti (A: 3/31/21; Insufficient Funds)

Adrian Maurice Hall (A: 6/29/23; Insufficient Funds)

Ajay Thaliath (A: 1/27/29; Insufficient Funds)

Alida Felton (A: 4/6/23; Insufficient Funds)

Alan Huddleston (A: 1/5/23; Insufficient Funds)

Allan Channey Summers (A: 6/14/23; Insufficient Funds)

Amanda Catherine Eskelson (A: 8/22/23; Insufficient Funds)

Angad Singh Chera (A: 10/16/23; Insufficient Funds)

Ann Parkinson (A: 6/28/23; Insufficient Funds)

Anthony Manalakos (A: 6/8/23; Insufficient Funds)

Antonio Marco Pantalo (A: 11/17/22; Insufficient Funds)

Armando Pereze-Serrato (A: 1/19/23; Insufficient Funds)

Arse Vincent Cysewski (A: 1/23/22; Insufficient Funds)

Ashley Powell (A: 2/9/18; Insufficient Funds)

Azeem Hussein (A: 5/2/23; Insufficient Funds)

Beatrice Ramos (A: 1/3/24; Insufficient Funds)

Bella Berg Fonvergne (A: 12/15/23; Insufficient Funds)

Benjamin Garcia (A: 7/27/20; Insufficient Funds)

Bill Thomas Compton (A: 3/24/21; Insufficient Funds)

Brian Matthew Owen (A: 5/20/23; Insufficient Funds)

Brittany A. Mckown (A: 1/5/22; Insufficient Funds)

Bryan James (A: 4/5/23; Insufficient Funds)

Carson Loveless (A: 5/2/23; Insufficient Funds)

Cenk Uygur (A: 10/11/23; Insufficient Funds)

Charles Camilleri (A: 4/20/23; Insufficient Funds)

Christin Noel Powers (A: 7/15/22; Insufficient Funds)

Christopher Campbell (A: 2/9/21; Insufficient Funds)

Christopher David Portlock (A: 7/21/23; Insufficient Funds)

Chris Weiler (A: 7/18/23; Insufficient Funds)

Constance L. Johnson (A: 10/24/23; Insufficient Funds)

Coran De-Andre Smith (A: 10/9/23; Insufficient Funds)

Dantwan Samuel Watkins (A: 1/26/23; Insufficient Funds)

David Barnard (A: 6/4/23; Insufficient Funds)

David Cash (A: 5/3/21; Insufficient Funds)

David Curtis Jefferson (12/7/22; Insufficient Funds)

Dean Phillips (A: 10/26/23; Insufficient Funds)

Deborah Sharpe (A: 6/15/23; Insufficient Funds)

Donald Picard (A: 10/6/23; Insufficient Funds)

Doris Brown (A: 10/2/23; Insufficient Funds)

Dorsey Porter (A: 11/16/22; Insufficient Funds)

Dustin Rorex (A: 4/26/23; Insufficient Funds)

Dykeba Lecole Rogers (A: 8/22/22; Insufficient Funds)

Earl Davis (A: 1/19/23; Insufficient Funds)

Eban Cambridge (A: 10/17/23; Insufficient Funds)

Edward Nathaniel Grimes (A: 8/30/23; Insufficient Funds)

Erik Leckner (A: 4/28/22; Insufficient Funds)

Ethan Witzling Hamby (A: 6/30/22; Insufficient Funds)

Evette Rechelle Tippett (A: 6/5/22; Insufficient Funds)

Frank J. Lozada (A: 11/9/23; Insufficient Funds)

Gabriel Cornejo (A: 10/26/23; Insufficient Funds)

Gary Davis (A: 3/16/23; Insufficient Funds)

Gary J. Brown (A: 8/18/23; Insufficient Funds)

George Brucato (A: 4/16/22; Insufficient Funds)

Gerry Coleman (A: 4/21/23; Insufficient Funds)

Gibran Nicholas (A: 3/19/23; Insufficient Funds)

Golda D. Harris (A: 11/1/23; Insufficient Funds)

Gregory Marquis Thomas (A: 11/19/22; Insufficient Funds)

Harvey Wizard (A: 11/15/23; Insufficient Funds)

Heather Munoz (A: 11/7/20; Insufficient Funds)

Herbert Ezekiel Zeke Smyth (A: 4/3/22; Insufficient Funds)

Howard Dotson (A: 2/28/23; Insufficient Funds)

Hudson Theodore Zoller (A: 11/22/22; Insufficient Funds)

Hung Huynh Chan (A: 6/21/22; Insufficient Funds)

Isaiah Reid (A: 11/22/20; Insufficient Funds)

Jamarion Walker (A: 11/4/23; Insufficient Funds)

James Nixon (A: 7/26/20; Insufficient Funds)

James Orlando Ogle III (A: 3/7/22; Insufficient Funds)

Jason Palmer (A: 10/22/23)

Jeff Miles (A: 8/16/23; Insufficient Funds)

Jennifer Astello (A: 12/28/22; Insufficient Funds)

Jennifer Lee Ann Ney (A: 2/10/22; Insufficient Funds)

Jennifer McMurray (A: 10/31/22; Insufficient Funds)

Jodie Smithson (A: 11/7/22; Insufficient Funds)

Joe Exotic (Joseph Allen Maldonado) (A: 4/18/23; Insufficient Funds)

John Coyne (A: 8/19/23; Insufficient Funds)

John Gagliardi (A: 1/13/22; Insufficient Funds)

John Washington III (A: 3/26/23; Insufficient Funds)

Jonathan Tuan Tran (A: 11/15/22; Insufficient Funds)

Jose Font (A: 10/5/23; Insufficient Funds)

Joseph Firmage (A: 10/11/23; Insufficient Funds)

Joseph Jay Manger (A: 11/30/22; Insufficient Funds)

Joseph R Biden Jr (A: 9/5/23)

Joshua David Horwitz (A: 10/4/23; Insufficient Funds)

Julie Jones (A: 4/21/23; Insufficient Funds)

Kacey Nicole Samples (A: 4/24/23; Insufficient Funds)

Keira Anne Walker (A: 4/7/23; Insufficient Funds)

Keith Smith (A: 5/18/23; Insufficient Funds)

Kelan Farrell-Smith (A: 10/30/21; Insufficient Funds)

Kenny Taylor (A: 9/8/23; Insufficient Funds)

Kevin Gilroy (A: 6/3/22; Insufficient Funds)

Kevin John Carney (A: 10/14/23; Insufficient Funds)

Kina Shamier Kerry (A: 9/29/23; Insufficient Funds)

Kristopher Lee Davis (A: 11/19/22; Insufficient Funds)

Larry D. Azevedo (A: 2/8/23; Insufficient Funds)

Lee Mercer Jr. (A: 7/26/22; Insufficient Funds)

Lee Rhodes (A: 3/12/21; Insufficient Funds)

Lindsay Kelch (A: 11/16/22; Insufficient Funds)

Lord A.C. Toulme Jr. (A: 10/20/21; Insufficient Funds)

Lori Ann Henriques (A: 3/5/23; Insufficient Funds)

Marcus Alexander Branch (A: 11/28/22; Insufficient Funds)

Marianne Williamson (A: 2/23/23)

Mark Richard Prascak (A: 9/8/23; Insufficient Funds)

Mark Stewart Greenstein (A: 6/1/23; Insufficient Funds)

Martin Foster Robbins (A: 8/12/23; Insufficient Funds)

Mary Clement (A: 6/8/23; Insufficient Funds)

Mattie Preston (A: 1/6/23; Insufficient Funds)

Michael Chad Lemere (A: 8/6/23; Insufficient Funds)

Michael D'Ottavio (A: 11/9/20; Insufficient Funds)

Michael D. Swing (A: 1/14/22; Insufficient Funds)

Michael Landingham (A: 11/21/22; Insufficient Funds)

Michael Noonan (A: 6/21/23; Insufficient Funds)

Michael Soetaert (A: 12/23/23; Insufficient Funds)

Michael Steinberg (A: 7/2/23; Insufficient Funds)

Michael Tillinghast (A: 5/25/23; Insufficient Funds)

Mikey Lane (A: 11/26/21; Insufficient Funds)

Nancy Elizabeth Rodriguez (A: 5/3/22; Insufficient Funds)

Nicolae Bunea (A: 7/8/22; Insufficient Funds)

Nita Mildred Rice (A: 3/7/23; Insufficient Funds)

Pedro J. Velez (A: 5/20/23; Insufficient Funds)

Perry Jones (A: 1/1/24; Insufficient Funds)

Phillip Bryan Kleski (A: 6/13/23; Insufficient Funds)

President Boddie (A: 10/30/23; Insufficient Funds)

Quinci Renee Smith Slater (A: 12/12/23; Insufficient Funds)

Ralph Robbie Hoffman (A: 7/26/23; Insufficient Funds)

Randall Wick (A: 10/28/22; Insufficient Funds)

Reponsal Perkins (A: 8/19/23; Insufficient Funds)

Richard Hale Nelson (A: 4/10/23; Insufficient Funds)

Rick Chavez (A: 6/6/23; Insufficient Funds)

Riki Prado (A: 11/15/16; Insufficient Funds)

Robert Carlos Ayala (A: 6/21/23; Insufficient Funds)

Robert Ion Moldafsky (A: 1/26/21; Insufficient Funds)

Robert Jordan (A: 6/12/23; Insufficient Funds)

Robert Michael Becker (A: 7/18/23; Insufficient Funds)

Rodger Lee Roose (A: 9/30/21; Insufficient Funds)

Roland Kwadwo Dela Agorkle (A: 4/15/22; Insufficient Funds)

Ron S. Bull (A: 11/22/22; Insufficient Funds)

Ryan McCarty (A: 11/28/22; Insufficient Funds)

Ryan Oliver Christian Kraft (A: 1/3/24; Insufficient Funds)

Ryan P. Kirkpatrick (A: 5/27/22; Insufficient Funds)

Sae Hoon Park (A: 5/20/23; Insufficient Funds)

Sahmon Mustafa (A: 11/17/21; Insufficient Funds)

Saint jermaine Endeley (A: 4/26/23; Insufficient Funds)

Samuel D'Amico (A: 8/3/20; Insufficient Funds)

Sean McGuire (A: 6/21/22; Insufficient Funds)

Senator Cringe (A: 1/18/24; Insufficient Funds)

Shabadjot Bharara (A: 11/16/22; Insufficient Funds)

Shane Aleksander Mohammad (A: 10/28/23; Insufficient Funds)

Shantell Newman (A: 1/24/24; Insufficient Funds)

Shinae Ahn (A: 5/22/22; Insufficient Funds)

Skyles Fitzgerald McAuley (A: 4/30/22; Insufficient Funds)

Souraya Faas (A: 1/31/24)

Stephen Alan Leon (A: 4/1/22; Insufficient Funds)

Stephen Lyons Sr. (A: 9/21/23; Insufficient Funds)

Stephen Paul Murphy (A: 7/7/23; E: 10/17/23)

Steven Fleck (A: 10/12/21; Insufficient Funds)

Stuart Farber (A: 7/24/23; Insufficient Funds)

Sykema Powell (A: 4/20/23; Insufficient Funds)

Terrance James Harvey (A: 11/14/22; Insufficient Funds)

Terrisa Lin Bukovinac (A: 6/13/23)

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (A: 3/24/21; Insufficient Funds)

Theodore Milton Earth Fagin (A: 12/29/23; Insufficient Funds)

Thomas Daly (A: 3/18/21; Insufficient Funds)

Thomas Francis winterbottom (A: 1/22/21; Insufficient Funds)

Tiffany Gayle Keller (A: 1/4/23; Insufficient Funds)

Todd J. Ashcraft (A: 4/6/23; Insufficient Funds)

Trenita Walker (A: 10/4/21; Insufficient Funds)

Trista di Genova (A: 12/4/23; Insufficient Funds)

Ulrich Neujahr (A: 10/11/23; Insufficient Funds)

Valentine Vidal (A: 5/31/23; Insufficient Funds)

Victoria Dawn Zieg (A: 2/7/23; Insufficient Funds)

Wayne J. Villines (A: 1/5/23; Insufficient Funds)

Wayne Pope (A: 11/28/22; Insufficient Funds)

Whitney Medearis (A: 8/8/20; Insufficient Funds)

William Farms (A: 6/22/23; Insufficient Funds)

William Gailey (A: 12/13/21; Insufficient Funds)

Willie Carter (A: 3/19/22; Insufficient Funds)

** Definition is a summary of the About Page on the Democratic Party Website. There is also a link marked in above definition that will direct you to the incredibly long "Democratic Platform" document.

Back to 2024 Party List

[moviesandmania]

JACK FROST (1997) Reviews of cheesy comedy horror - now free to watch online

JACK FROST (1997) Reviews of cheesy comedy horror – now free to watch online

Jack Frost is a 1997 American comedy horror film written and directed by Michael Cooney. The movie stars Christopher Allport (Savage Weekend), Stephen Mendel, F. William Parker, Eileen Seeley, Rob LaBelle, Zack Eginton, Jack Lindine, Kelly Jean Peters, Marsha Clark, Shannon Elizabeth, Chip Heller, Brian Leckner, Darren O. Campbell, Paul Keith, Charles C. Stevenson Jr, Nathan Hague and Scott…

[kwebtv]

L. A. Firefighters  -  Fox  -  June 3, 1996 - July 8, 1996

Drama (13 episodes - 7 unaired)

Running Time:  60 minutes

Stars:

Jarrod Emick as Captain Jack Malloy

Christine Elise as firefighter Erin Coffey

Rob Youngblood as pilot Jed Neal

Brian Smiar as Fire Chief Dick Coffey

Alexandra Hedison as firefighter Kay Rizzo

Brian Leckner as firefighter J.B. Baker

Michael Gallagher as firefighter Lenny Rose

Carlton Wilborn as firefighter Ray Grimes

Elizabeth Mitchell as Laura Malloy

Miguel Sandoval as arson investigator Bernie Ramirez

John Bradley as firefighter Mike Durning

Alexandra Paul as T. K. Martin

After the initial six-episode summer run, the series was re-titled and given new cast members. Criticism of the show from the L.A. County Fire Fighters Union led to the series being retitled Fire Co. 132. The retooled series never aired.

[80smovies]

The Worm Turns (1983)

[kritikycz]

Ostrov - Ewan McGregor a Scarlett Johansson si zachraňují svůj kloní život

Dva klony (báječný Ewan McGregor a sladká Scarlett Johannson) utíkají z chovné stanice, kde si bohatí a mocní světa roku 2019 uskladňují své „životní pojistky“. P��itom se dostávají do nesnází, zdárně je překonají, jejich přátelství přeroste v lásku a vše dobře dopadne. Za doprovodu bombastických výbuchů, suchých hlášek a patetických výjevů. Jde v novém filmu Michaela Baye o něco víc? Ani ne. Přesto...…- Více na https://www.kritiky.cz/filmove-recenze/retro-filmove-recenze/2019/ostrov-ewan-mcgregor-a-scarlett-johansson-si-zachranuji-svuj-kloni-zivot/

[architectnews]

University of Kentucky College of Design presents 12 architecture projects

Our latest school show from students at the University of Kentucky College of Design includes a car depot that functions as a wellness centre and a housing community built from repurposed material from the railroad industry.

Other projects from the undergraduate and postgraduate students include a farm in Kentucky designed to mimic the surrounding environment's patterns and digitally-manipulated collages referencing Lewis Carroll's Alice and Wonderland.

University of Kentucky College of Design

School: University of Kentucky College of Design Courses:  Undergraduate and graduate studios Professors: Angus Eade, Anne Filson and Jeffrey Johnson, Jill Leckner, Mike McKay, Brian Richter, Gary Rohrbacher, Jason Scroggin, Mike Silver, Brent Sturlaugson, Martin Summers and Stephen Slaughter and Regina H. Summers.

School statement:

"The School of Architecture at the University of Kentucky College of Design offers a four-year undergraduate pre-professional degree and a Master of Architecture degree. The students featured in this festival represent the breadth of our two programmes, with a particular focus on our recently reconsidered undergraduate first-year spring studios, where we have fully integrated digital design and fabrication technologies.

"The theme of the spring semester for the first-year undergraduate studio sequence was to consider the notion of 'Object and Field' and how it relates to the negotiation of small-scale programme, inhabitation, and context. In addition to our pedagogical emphasis on the integration of digital technologies, the other undergraduate and graduate projects selected also represent our school's commitment to engage local issues, such as housing and urban development, that also relate to broader contemporary challenges confronting the discipline at the regional, national, and international level."

Rehabilitated Railroad Communities by Tori Vaughn

"The Commonwealth of Kentucky has long been an ideal laboratory for architectural study. Our state's cities, small towns, and landscapes offer multiple scales and conditions for engagement and intervention, while its distinct heritage, industries, and propensity for innovation provide a wide range of challenges for architecture students to explore. The Commonwealth Studio gives every Master of Architecture student an opportunity to pursue a self-directed, research-intensive design project as a culmination of their architectural education. Students explore contemporary 'local' issues that have global relevance and impact, proposing architectural solutions that positively impact home and beyond.

"Rehabilitated Railroad Communities is a housing development situated on the R.J.Corman Yard in Lexington, Kentucky. The project endeavours to reuse and repurpose materials and equipment from the railroad industry, like shipping containers and train wagons, to minimize environmental impact. The remains of an existing railyard will serve as the skeletal infrastructure for the new community.

"The R.J. Corman Rail Yard now accommodates a green, urban neighbourhood of diverse homes, people and plants. This walkable community is bursting with nature and nearby to many Lexington hot spots. The diversity of housing densities on the site allows for many different demographics of people to call this neighbourhood home. Including all enables the neighbourhood to support a multi-cultural, racial and generational community. The units and aggregation could be adapted and replicated to fit railways and rail yards across the commonwealth and the country."

Student: Tori Vaughn Course:  second-year graduate Professors: Anne Filson and Jeffrey Johnson

  Sawmill Pavilion by Chase Faulkner

"As part of a multidisciplinary grant team, students designed a pavilion to shelter a portable sawmill on the University of Kentucky's campus. After completing an analysis of user needs and site constraints, students also proposed additional functions for the pavilion and its surrounding landscape.

"Limiting the main structural components to mass timber products, the pavilion is intended to showcase the possibilities of building with wooden slabs produced by the sawmill itself. The research and design from this project will be used as a starting point for a future design-build studio in which the pavilion will be constructed.

"This project is intended to curate movement and frame points of interest on the site. This is achieved by using a series of folds to expand and contact volumes that accommodate different scales of programmatic spaces. The faceted cross-laminated timber panels are free to disobey the grid and respond to different constraints by regulating the glulam beam structure. This creates an interactive lighting quality that changes with the variable density of incisions within solid panels. Outside of sawmill operations, the project will serve as a new social hub for students on campus and a link between educational buildings on the site."

Student: Chase Faulkner Course:  second-year undergraduate Professor: Brent Sturlaugson

Toolpaths V Ascend by Ben Thornton

"Toolpath studios explore future architecture and construction from the vantage point of the post-industrial designer. Students discover their agency as designers for a time in the not-too-distant future when they'll collaborate directly with intelligent machines. Through the design of a door, staircase, and window, students discover the parts of a whole.

"The students investigated how architecture can be shaped to make relationships within other architectural entities and among humans, natures and technologies. Students experiment with additive and subtractive digital fabrication techniques at the scale of architectural details, using integrated design, engineering and manufacturing tools that collapse the distance between design and production.

"This project serves as an exploration of the capabilities of and design process for Fusion360s generative design workspace with the final goal of a more efficient cantilever stair. Using a steel-structured cantilever stair as precedent, the structure of the stair was broken into seven chunks comprised of smaller structural members. Each structural member was custom-designed using only the loads on the member and a target of minimizing mass as form driving forces. This focus on minimizing mass based on required loads is visible in the final stair with members toward the bottom with higher compounded loads having higher mass than those above that are supporting a lower load."

Student: Ben Thornton Course:  first-year graduate Professor: Gary Rohrbacher

Interspersed Pastel Commorancy by Trey Barnes

"The theme of the spring semester of the first-year studio sequence is to consider the notion of "Object and Field" and how it relates to the negotiation of small-scale programme, inhabitation and context. These parameters are opportunities to think critically about the work we generate and respond to these architectural design problems with innovative solutions.

"The studio begins with a set of experiments that seek a working relationship between solid, void, and pattern to develop a geometry that is responsive to the conditions of inhabitation, programme and site."

Click here to watch the animation.

Student: Trey Barnes Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Jason Scroggin

CloudForm Pavillion by Katherine White

"Working with a local Bourbon Distiller, the studio proposes a pavilion as part of a farm and distillery masterplan with a focus on visitor experience, bourbon production and history. Students were charged with exploring procedural and parametric design methods focused on formal geometric variety, combination, aesthetic, flexibility and adaptation to programmatic constraints.

"Design elements or 'components' developed during the investigative phase of the studio provided a baseline condition in addressing the physical constraints of the project programme. This allowed students to explore tectonic relationships, materiality, spatial quality and site-specificity in a contemporary context. Interoperability remained a key theme of the studio, challenging students to address the design prompt using a wide variety of digital methodologies, visualization, animation and digital-physical fabrication techniques."

Student: Katherine White Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Brian Richter

Forma by Lauren Henning

"The goal of the Forma studio was to test various thermo-former techniques to achieve an emerging formal typology. The unexpected outcomes were desired to search for something unknown and without preconception – allowing the thermo-forming process to influence the outcome of the form and surface condition."

Student: Lauren Henning Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Mike McKay

Kentucky Distillery Event Pavilion by Isaac Peck

"Students worked with community partners to propose event structures on a farm in Kentucky as part of adaptive reuse of an existing farm into a bourbon distillery. This project explored an adaptive skin system by creating a series of layered and woven aggregated systems of wood that mimic the naturally occurring and humanmade patterns of agricultural landscapes in Kentucky.

"The patterns were deployed across the skin, creating a porous envelope that defines the event space for programmatic use while seamlessly blending into the pastoral landscape. The varied texture and density of the skin similarly filter light to the existing trees and barns on the site. The pavilion brings new life to the existing farm while rooting itself in the atmospheric experience of agritourism through its materiality, organic form and referential patterns."

To watch the animation, click here.

Student: Isaac Peck Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Jill Leckner

Wonderland by Sarah Coviello

"The studio explored formal and spatial combinations. Through a reading of Alice in Wonderland, students produced collages that considered narrative, imagination, contradiction and the theme of normal vs abnormal. These Wonderland collages were further abstracted through pixelation and digital manipulation, selecting one to develop as a 3D topography. Next, they made physical and digital 'balloon animals' inspired by characters and or their characteristics.

"This new fluid language contradicted the pixelated topography, requiring operative combinations, piling, stacking, or nesting relationships between part-to-whole, object and field. A narrative sequence of spaces and programmes – scenes from the book – defined movement and occupation while questioning scale, space, and gravity within the digital design environment. This project aimed to free imagination and thinking by immersion into their Wonderland."

To watch the animation click here.

Student: Sarah Coviello Course: first-year undergraduate Professor: Regina H. Summers

Space of Contemplation by John Stegman

"Students were asked to design a space for contemplation using a double-curved and ruled surface for a fictional site designed using Twin Motion. A CNC foam cutter and a FormLabs 3D printer were used to both conceive the formal structure of the project and to create physical models."

To view the animation click here.

Student: John Stegman Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Mike Silver

Apex Lexington: Automated Electric Car Depot Network and Community Wellness-Fitness Centre by Cameron Mitchell, Kamryn Moore, Sydney Rocha and Jacob Johnson

"This studio investigated the evolving problematics of emerging transportation systems and their spatial, material, cultural, and environmental consequences. The studio sought to develop schemes that give back to the community, unlike much of the earlier paradigm of transportation infrastructural works – many of which had deleterious effects on underserved communities and coincided with red-lining, social bifurcation, and racial inequity.

"The Hybrid Functioned Building Programme includes: car depots – automated parking structures with charging, fueling and servicing capacity; an outdoor fitness and recreation centre made for exercising and wellness; and energy harvesting for capturing and storing ambient sources with a particular emphasis on solar technologies.

"The Apex facility provides two alternative routes to reach the observation level. One way is a processional stair that offers views of the busy street and the ropes course and climbing walls on the site's interior. The other option on the opposite edge of the area is a gondola that provides a way for all types of users to reach the peak and observation deck, ensuring accessibility while providing a compelling spatial experience. The gondola route offers views to the adjacent train track while fully displaying the parking structure.

"Along with the main facility, we have created four other sites in strategic locations around Lexington so everyone can have easy access to similar facilities and to ensure minimal wait times for vehicles that service the community at large. Glue-laminated timber structures are used to support the massive ropes course that sprawls throughout the site, offering a fun way to get outside and exercise.

"The vertical supports of the ropes course mirror the trees on the opposite side of the site, creating a formal relationship between nature and our human-made intervention to integrate the building with its site further. Apex vehicles enter the parking structure through an underground tunnel, keeping it out of the way of the recreation space. Once at their designated parking section, a platform will be called to pick up the vehicle. This operates along with a grid system that allows it to travel to the ground to pick up the car, then return to its original position to store it away."

Students: Cameron Mitchell, Kamryn Moore, Sydney Rocha and Jacob Johnson Course: second-year undergraduate Professor: Angus Eade

Encompass by Eliza-Kate Carter, Megan Kidd and Alyssa Ramsey

"This studio challenged three-person teams to design mixed-use housing in Cincinnati’s West End. At an urban seam between historic neighbourhoods, the site has a tumultuous history defined by local and national racist public policy, redlining practices, urban renewal and current pressures of gentrification. Multi-unit housing in this context needs to address inclusivity and clarify community within this context.

"Other themes explore patterns – organisational, material, graphic – and formal relationships (combinations, operations, seams, gaps) to test legibility in an urban form by simultaneously articulating part-to-part relations and strategically obfuscating edges and seams. These ideas go beyond disciplinary issues of aesthetics, form, and space, to include how individuals define their corporeal edges and construct their public, communal, and private identities.

"Cincinnati’s complex urban history balkanized neighbourhoods through reconfigured infrastructural edges driven by racist public policy. The disparity between neighbourhoods was amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic. Encompass was designed as a heterogeneous and supportive community, where access to flexible work and open-air leisure spaces close to home encourages new forms of community. Using the adaptive, operational techniques of Professor Summers’ Disruptive Continuity exercise, part-to-whole relationships attempt to define specific local conditions while camouflaging and expanding other urban readings.

"Designed as vertically organized micro-communities within the larger whole, our team produced local identity while simultaneously connecting the public spaces to the larger civic body. The street-level edges are eroded by the public program, inviting the city into a porous, mixed retail space – stitching the site to its context as a hub for commerce, leisure, and living within the West End neighbourhood."

Students: Eliza-Kate Carter, Megan Kidd, and Alyssa Ramsey Course: third-year undergraduate Professors: Martin Summers, University of Kentucky and in an advisory capacity Stephen Slaughter, University of Cincinnati

Cultural Restoration by Destini Chenault, Taely Freeman and Connor Guy

"The essence of this housing project revolved around the restoration and amplification of a cultural hub located on a site in the West End neighbourhood district of Cincinnati, Ohio. The West End was historically a rich black community erased for the construction of Interstate I-75.

"Two major buildings adjacent to the site, known as the State and Regal Theatre are unfortunately used to serve as the cultural hub of this neighbourhood. This project aimed to promote a new hub that encouraged reflection, community and interaction between a variety of people.

"The project used a variety of abstract objects that formally combined with one another to carve a large, axial pathway through the site, encouraging circulation from the nearby FC Cincinnati Soccer Stadium to the Over-The-Rhine District in the East. Commercial programmes such as restaurants, bars, and retail stores were located along the perimeter while cultural centres such as a museum, amphitheatre, and the new movie theatre were nestled within the centre to produce an overall micro city for the residents that lived within.

"A variety of unit types were designed according to the location of residential districts along the Western border of the site to allow for privacy. Various studios and workspaces occupied each floor to reinforce ideas of collaboration and allow local artists-in-residency to share their work."

Students: Destini Chenault, Taely Freeman and Connor Guy Course: third-year undergraduate Professors: Martin Summers, University of Kentucky and in an advisory capacity Stephen Slaughter, University of Cincinnati

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This school show is a partnership between Dezeen and The University of Kentucky College of Design. Find out more about Dezeen partnership content here.

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Craggus' Christmas Countdown Day 16: Jack Frost (1997)

You'd better watch Out, you'd better not cry... Craggus' Christmas Countdown Day 16: Jack Frost (1997)

Psyche! If you were expecting a review of the ‘heart-warming’ Michael Keaton snowman comedy, you’re barking up the wrong yule log. However, if you’re finding all the holiday sweetness a bit much and the gathering family are getting on your nerves a bit leaving you pining for a bit of sharp holly amongst all the mistletoe, then perhaps I’ve found the perfect film for you to watch.

1997’s “Jack…

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Carlton Wilborn, Elizabeth Mitchell, Jarrod Emick, Alexandra Hedison, Brian Smiar, Michael Gallagher, Christine Elise, Miguel Sandoval and Brian Leckner in “L.A. Firefighters”

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The Worm Turns (1983)

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University of Kentucky College of Design presents 12 architecture projects

Our latest school show from students at the University of Kentucky College of Design includes a car depot that functions as a wellness centre and a housing community built from repurposed material from the railroad industry.

Other projects from the undergraduate and postgraduate students include a farm in Kentucky designed to mimic the surrounding environment's patterns and digitally-manipulated collages referencing Lewis Carroll's Alice and Wonderland.

University of Kentucky College of Design

School: University of Kentucky College of Design Courses:  Undergraduate and graduate studios Professors: Angus Eade, Anne Filson and Jeffrey Johnson, Jill Leckner, Mike McKay, Brian Richter, Gary Rohrbacher, Jason Scroggin, Mike Silver, Brent Sturlaugson, Martin Summers and Stephen Slaughter and Regina H. Summers.

School statement:

"The School of Architecture at the University of Kentucky College of Design offers a four-year undergraduate pre-professional degree and a Master of Architecture degree. The students featured in this festival represent the breadth of our two programmes, with a particular focus on our recently reconsidered undergraduate first-year spring studios, where we have fully integrated digital design and fabrication technologies.

"The theme of the spring semester for the first-year undergraduate studio sequence was to consider the notion of 'Object and Field' and how it relates to the negotiation of small-scale programme, inhabitation, and context. In addition to our pedagogical emphasis on the integration of digital technologies, the other undergraduate and graduate projects selected also represent our school's commitment to engage local issues, such as housing and urban development, that also relate to broader contemporary challenges confronting the discipline at the regional, national, and international level."

Rehabilitated Railroad Communities by Tori Vaughn

"The Commonwealth of Kentucky has long been an ideal laboratory for architectural study. Our state's cities, small towns, and landscapes offer multiple scales and conditions for engagement and intervention, while its distinct heritage, industries, and propensity for innovation provide a wide range of challenges for architecture students to explore. The Commonwealth Studio gives every Master of Architecture student an opportunity to pursue a self-directed, research-intensive design project as a culmination of their architectural education. Students explore contemporary 'local' issues that have global relevance and impact, proposing architectural solutions that positively impact home and beyond.

"Rehabilitated Railroad Communities is a housing development situated on the R.J.Corman Yard in Lexington, Kentucky. The project endeavours to reuse and repurpose materials and equipment from the railroad industry, like shipping containers and train wagons, to minimize environmental impact. The remains of an existing railyard will serve as the skeletal infrastructure for the new community.

"The R.J. Corman Rail Yard now accommodates a green, urban neighbourhood of diverse homes, people and plants. This walkable community is bursting with nature and nearby to many Lexington hot spots. The diversity of housing densities on the site allows for many different demographics of people to call this neighbourhood home. Including all enables the neighbourhood to support a multi-cultural, racial and generational community. The units and aggregation could be adapted and replicated to fit railways and rail yards across the commonwealth and the country."

Student: Tori Vaughn Course:  second-year graduate Professors: Anne Filson and Jeffrey Johnson

  Sawmill Pavilion by Chase Faulkner

"As part of a multidisciplinary grant team, students designed a pavilion to shelter a portable sawmill on the University of Kentucky's campus. After completing an analysis of user needs and site constraints, students also proposed additional functions for the pavilion and its surrounding landscape.

"Limiting the main structural components to mass timber products, the pavilion is intended to showcase the possibilities of building with wooden slabs produced by the sawmill itself. The research and design from this project will be used as a starting point for a future design-build studio in which the pavilion will be constructed.

"This project is intended to curate movement and frame points of interest on the site. This is achieved by using a series of folds to expand and contact volumes that accommodate different scales of programmatic spaces. The faceted cross-laminated timber panels are free to disobey the grid and respond to different constraints by regulating the glulam beam structure. This creates an interactive lighting quality that changes with the variable density of incisions within solid panels. Outside of sawmill operations, the project will serve as a new social hub for students on campus and a link between educational buildings on the site."

Student: Chase Faulkner Course:  second-year undergraduate Professor: Brent Sturlaugson

Toolpaths V Ascend by Ben Thornton

"Toolpath studios explore future architecture and construction from the vantage point of the post-industrial designer. Students discover their agency as designers for a time in the not-too-distant future when they'll collaborate directly with intelligent machines. Through the design of a door, staircase, and window, students discover the parts of a whole.

"The students investigated how architecture can be shaped to make relationships within other architectural entities and among humans, natures and technologies. Students experiment with additive and subtractive digital fabrication techniques at the scale of architectural details, using integrated design, engineering and manufacturing tools that collapse the distance between design and production.

"This project serves as an exploration of the capabilities of and design process for Fusion360s generative design workspace with the final goal of a more efficient cantilever stair. Using a steel-structured cantilever stair as precedent, the structure of the stair was broken into seven chunks comprised of smaller structural members. Each structural member was custom-designed using only the loads on the member and a target of minimizing mass as form driving forces. This focus on minimizing mass based on required loads is visible in the final stair with members toward the bottom with higher compounded loads having higher mass than those above that are supporting a lower load."

Student: Ben Thornton Course:  first-year graduate Professor: Gary Rohrbacher

Interspersed Pastel Commorancy by Trey Barnes

"The theme of the spring semester of the first-year studio sequence is to consider the notion of "Object and Field" and how it relates to the negotiation of small-scale programme, inhabitation and context. These parameters are opportunities to think critically about the work we generate and respond to these architectural design problems with innovative solutions.

"The studio begins with a set of experiments that seek a working relationship between solid, void, and pattern to develop a geometry that is responsive to the conditions of inhabitation, programme and site."

Click here to watch the animation.

Student: Trey Barnes Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Jason Scroggin

CloudForm Pavillion by Katherine White

"Working with a local Bourbon Distiller, the studio proposes a pavilion as part of a farm and distillery masterplan with a focus on visitor experience, bourbon production and history. Students were charged with exploring procedural and parametric design methods focused on formal geometric variety, combination, aesthetic, flexibility and adaptation to programmatic constraints.

"Design elements or 'components' developed during the investigative phase of the studio provided a baseline condition in addressing the physical constraints of the project programme. This allowed students to explore tectonic relationships, materiality, spatial quality and site-specificity in a contemporary context. Interoperability remained a key theme of the studio, challenging students to address the design prompt using a wide variety of digital methodologies, visualization, animation and digital-physical fabrication techniques."

Student: Katherine White Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Brian Richter

Forma by Lauren Henning

"The goal of the Forma studio was to test various thermo-former techniques to achieve an emerging formal typology. The unexpected outcomes were desired to search for something unknown and without preconception – allowing the thermo-forming process to influence the outcome of the form and surface condition."

Student: Lauren Henning Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Mike McKay

Kentucky Distillery Event Pavilion by Isaac Peck

"Students worked with community partners to propose event structures on a farm in Kentucky as part of adaptive reuse of an existing farm into a bourbon distillery. This project explored an adaptive skin system by creating a series of layered and woven aggregated systems of wood that mimic the naturally occurring and humanmade patterns of agricultural landscapes in Kentucky.

"The patterns were deployed across the skin, creating a porous envelope that defines the event space for programmatic use while seamlessly blending into the pastoral landscape. The varied texture and density of the skin similarly filter light to the existing trees and barns on the site. The pavilion brings new life to the existing farm while rooting itself in the atmospheric experience of agritourism through its materiality, organic form and referential patterns."

To watch the animation, click here.

Student: Isaac Peck Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Jill Leckner

Wonderland by Sarah Coviello

"The studio explored formal and spatial combinations. Through a reading of Alice in Wonderland, students produced collages that considered narrative, imagination, contradiction and the theme of normal vs abnormal. These Wonderland collages were further abstracted through pixelation and digital manipulation, selecting one to develop as a 3D topography. Next, they made physical and digital 'balloon animals' inspired by characters and or their characteristics.

"This new fluid language contradicted the pixelated topography, requiring operative combinations, piling, stacking, or nesting relationships between part-to-whole, object and field. A narrative sequence of spaces and programmes – scenes from the book – defined movement and occupation while questioning scale, space, and gravity within the digital design environment. This project aimed to free imagination and thinking by immersion into their Wonderland."

To watch the animation click here.

Student: Sarah Coviello Course: first-year undergraduate Professor: Regina H. Summers

Space of Contemplation by John Stegman

"Students were asked to design a space for contemplation using a double-curved and ruled surface for a fictional site designed using Twin Motion. A CNC foam cutter and a FormLabs 3D printer were used to both conceive the formal structure of the project and to create physical models."

To view the animation click here.

Student: John Stegman Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Mike Silver

Apex Lexington: Automated Electric Car Depot Network and Community Wellness-Fitness Centre by Cameron Mitchell, Kamryn Moore, Sydney Rocha and Jacob Johnson

"This studio investigated the evolving problematics of emerging transportation systems and their spatial, material, cultural, and environmental consequences. The studio sought to develop schemes that give back to the community, unlike much of the earlier paradigm of transportation infrastructural works – many of which had deleterious effects on underserved communities and coincided with red-lining, social bifurcation, and racial inequity.

"The Hybrid Functioned Building Programme includes: car depots – automated parking structures with charging, fueling and servicing capacity; an outdoor fitness and recreation centre made for exercising and wellness; and energy harvesting for capturing and storing ambient sources with a particular emphasis on solar technologies.

"The Apex facility provides two alternative routes to reach the observation level. One way is a processional stair that offers views of the busy street and the ropes course and climbing walls on the site's interior. The other option on the opposite edge of the area is a gondola that provides a way for all types of users to reach the peak and observation deck, ensuring accessibility while providing a compelling spatial experience. The gondola route offers views to the adjacent train track while fully displaying the parking structure.

"Along with the main facility, we have created four other sites in strategic locations around Lexington so everyone can have easy access to similar facilities and to ensure minimal wait times for vehicles that service the community at large. Glue-laminated timber structures are used to support the massive ropes course that sprawls throughout the site, offering a fun way to get outside and exercise.

"The vertical supports of the ropes course mirror the trees on the opposite side of the site, creating a formal relationship between nature and our human-made intervention to integrate the building with its site further. Apex vehicles enter the parking structure through an underground tunnel, keeping it out of the way of the recreation space. Once at their designated parking section, a platform will be called to pick up the vehicle. This operates along with a grid system that allows it to travel to the ground to pick up the car, then return to its original position to store it away."

Students: Cameron Mitchell, Kamryn Moore, Sydney Rocha and Jacob Johnson Course: second-year undergraduate Professor: Angus Eade

Encompass by Eliza-Kate Carter, Megan Kidd and Alyssa Ramsey

"This studio challenged three-person teams to design mixed-use housing in Cincinnati’s West End. At an urban seam between historic neighbourhoods, the site has a tumultuous history defined by local and national racist public policy, redlining practices, urban renewal and current pressures of gentrification. Multi-unit housing in this context needs to address inclusivity and clarify community within this context.

"Other themes explore patterns – organisational, material, graphic – and formal relationships (combinations, operations, seams, gaps) to test legibility in an urban form by simultaneously articulating part-to-part relations and strategically obfuscating edges and seams. These ideas go beyond disciplinary issues of aesthetics, form, and space, to include how individuals define their corporeal edges and construct their public, communal, and private identities.

"Cincinnati’s complex urban history balkanized neighbourhoods through reconfigured infrastructural edges driven by racist public policy. The disparity between neighbourhoods was amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic. Encompass was designed as a heterogeneous and supportive community, where access to flexible work and open-air leisure spaces close to home encourages new forms of community. Using the adaptive, operational techniques of Professor Summers’ Disruptive Continuity exercise, part-to-whole relationships attempt to define specific local conditions while camouflaging and expanding other urban readings.

"Designed as vertically organized micro-communities within the larger whole, our team produced local identity while simultaneously connecting the public spaces to the larger civic body. The street-level edges are eroded by the public program, inviting the city into a porous, mixed retail space – stitching the site to its context as a hub for commerce, leisure, and living within the West End neighbourhood."

Students: Eliza-Kate Carter, Megan Kidd, and Alyssa Ramsey Course: third-year undergraduate Professors: Martin Summers, University of Kentucky and in an advisory capacity Stephen Slaughter, University of Cincinnati

Cultural Restoration by Destini Chenault, Taely Freeman and Connor Guy

"The essence of this housing project revolved around the restoration and amplification of a cultural hub located on a site in the West End neighbourhood district of Cincinnati, Ohio. The West End was historically a rich black community erased for the construction of Interstate I-75.

"Two major buildings adjacent to the site, known as the State and Regal Theatre are unfortunately used to serve as the cultural hub of this neighbourhood. This project aimed to promote a new hub that encouraged reflection, community and interaction between a variety of people.

"The project used a variety of abstract objects that formally combined with one another to carve a large, axial pathway through the site, encouraging circulation from the nearby FC Cincinnati Soccer Stadium to the Over-The-Rhine District in the East. Commercial programmes such as restaurants, bars, and retail stores were located along the perimeter while cultural centres such as a museum, amphitheatre, and the new movie theatre were nestled within the centre to produce an overall micro city for the residents that lived within.

"A variety of unit types were designed according to the location of residential districts along the Western border of the site to allow for privacy. Various studios and workspaces occupied each floor to reinforce ideas of collaboration and allow local artists-in-residency to share their work."

Students: Destini Chenault, Taely Freeman and Connor Guy Course: third-year undergraduate Professors: Martin Summers, University of Kentucky and in an advisory capacity Stephen Slaughter, University of Cincinnati

Partnership content

This school show is a partnership between Dezeen and The University of Kentucky College of Design. Find out more about Dezeen partnership content here.

The post University of Kentucky College of Design presents 12 architecture projects appeared first on Dezeen.

[architectnews]

University of Kentucky College of Design presents 12 architecture projects

Our latest school show from students at the University of Kentucky College of Design includes a car depot that functions as a wellness centre and a housing community built from repurposed material from the railroad industry.

Other projects from the undergraduate and postgraduate students include a farm in Kentucky designed to mimic the surrounding environment's patterns and digitally-manipulated collages referencing Lewis Carroll's Alice and Wonderland.

University of Kentucky College of Design

School: University of Kentucky College of Design Courses:  Undergraduate and graduate studios Professors: Angus Eade, Anne Filson and Jeffrey Johnson, Jill Leckner, Mike McKay, Brian Richter, Gary Rohrbacher, Jason Scroggin, Mike Silver, Brent Sturlaugson, Martin Summers and Stephen Slaughter and Regina H. Summers.

School statement:

"The School of Architecture at the University of Kentucky College of Design offers a four-year undergraduate pre-professional degree and a Master of Architecture degree. The students featured in this festival represent the breadth of our two programmes, with a particular focus on our recently reconsidered undergraduate first-year spring studios, where we have fully integrated digital design and fabrication technologies.

"The theme of the spring semester for the first-year undergraduate studio sequence was to consider the notion of 'Object and Field' and how it relates to the negotiation of small-scale programme, inhabitation, and context. In addition to our pedagogical emphasis on the integration of digital technologies, the other undergraduate and graduate projects selected also represent our school's commitment to engage local issues, such as housing and urban development, that also relate to broader contemporary challenges confronting the discipline at the regional, national, and international level."

Rehabilitated Railroad Communities by Tori Vaughn

"The Commonwealth of Kentucky has long been an ideal laboratory for architectural study. Our state's cities, small towns, and landscapes offer multiple scales and conditions for engagement and intervention, while its distinct heritage, industries, and propensity for innovation provide a wide range of challenges for architecture students to explore. The Commonwealth Studio gives every Master of Architecture student an opportunity to pursue a self-directed, research-intensive design project as a culmination of their architectural education. Students explore contemporary 'local' issues that have global relevance and impact, proposing architectural solutions that positively impact home and beyond.

"Rehabilitated Railroad Communities is a housing development situated on the R.J.Corman Yard in Lexington, Kentucky. The project endeavours to reuse and repurpose materials and equipment from the railroad industry, like shipping containers and train wagons, to minimize environmental impact. The remains of an existing railyard will serve as the skeletal infrastructure for the new community.

"The R.J. Corman Rail Yard now accommodates a green, urban neighbourhood of diverse homes, people and plants. This walkable community is bursting with nature and nearby to many Lexington hot spots. The diversity of housing densities on the site allows for many different demographics of people to call this neighbourhood home. Including all enables the neighbourhood to support a multi-cultural, racial and generational community. The units and aggregation could be adapted and replicated to fit railways and rail yards across the commonwealth and the country."

Student: Tori Vaughn Course:  second-year graduate Professors: Anne Filson and Jeffrey Johnson

  Sawmill Pavilion by Chase Faulkner

"As part of a multidisciplinary grant team, students designed a pavilion to shelter a portable sawmill on the University of Kentucky's campus. After completing an analysis of user needs and site constraints, students also proposed additional functions for the pavilion and its surrounding landscape.

"Limiting the main structural components to mass timber products, the pavilion is intended to showcase the possibilities of building with wooden slabs produced by the sawmill itself. The research and design from this project will be used as a starting point for a future design-build studio in which the pavilion will be constructed.

"This project is intended to curate movement and frame points of interest on the site. This is achieved by using a series of folds to expand and contact volumes that accommodate different scales of programmatic spaces. The faceted cross-laminated timber panels are free to disobey the grid and respond to different constraints by regulating the glulam beam structure. This creates an interactive lighting quality that changes with the variable density of incisions within solid panels. Outside of sawmill operations, the project will serve as a new social hub for students on campus and a link between educational buildings on the site."

Student: Chase Faulkner Course:  second-year undergraduate Professor: Brent Sturlaugson

Toolpaths V Ascend by Ben Thornton

"Toolpath studios explore future architecture and construction from the vantage point of the post-industrial designer. Students discover their agency as designers for a time in the not-too-distant future when they'll collaborate directly with intelligent machines. Through the design of a door, staircase, and window, students discover the parts of a whole.

"The students investigated how architecture can be shaped to make relationships within other architectural entities and among humans, natures and technologies. Students experiment with additive and subtractive digital fabrication techniques at the scale of architectural details, using integrated design, engineering and manufacturing tools that collapse the distance between design and production.

"This project serves as an exploration of the capabilities of and design process for Fusion360s generative design workspace with the final goal of a more efficient cantilever stair. Using a steel-structured cantilever stair as precedent, the structure of the stair was broken into seven chunks comprised of smaller structural members. Each structural member was custom-designed using only the loads on the member and a target of minimizing mass as form driving forces. This focus on minimizing mass based on required loads is visible in the final stair with members toward the bottom with higher compounded loads having higher mass than those above that are supporting a lower load."

Student: Ben Thornton Course:  first-year graduate Professor: Gary Rohrbacher

Interspersed Pastel Commorancy by Trey Barnes

"The theme of the spring semester of the first-year studio sequence is to consider the notion of "Object and Field" and how it relates to the negotiation of small-scale programme, inhabitation and context. These parameters are opportunities to think critically about the work we generate and respond to these architectural design problems with innovative solutions.

"The studio begins with a set of experiments that seek a working relationship between solid, void, and pattern to develop a geometry that is responsive to the conditions of inhabitation, programme and site."

Click here to watch the animation.

Student: Trey Barnes Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Jason Scroggin

CloudForm Pavillion by Katherine White

"Working with a local Bourbon Distiller, the studio proposes a pavilion as part of a farm and distillery masterplan with a focus on visitor experience, bourbon production and history. Students were charged with exploring procedural and parametric design methods focused on formal geometric variety, combination, aesthetic, flexibility and adaptation to programmatic constraints.

"Design elements or 'components' developed during the investigative phase of the studio provided a baseline condition in addressing the physical constraints of the project programme. This allowed students to explore tectonic relationships, materiality, spatial quality and site-specificity in a contemporary context. Interoperability remained a key theme of the studio, challenging students to address the design prompt using a wide variety of digital methodologies, visualization, animation and digital-physical fabrication techniques."

Student: Katherine White Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Brian Richter

Forma by Lauren Henning

"The goal of the Forma studio was to test various thermo-former techniques to achieve an emerging formal typology. The unexpected outcomes were desired to search for something unknown and without preconception – allowing the thermo-forming process to influence the outcome of the form and surface condition."

Student: Lauren Henning Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Mike McKay

Kentucky Distillery Event Pavilion by Isaac Peck

"Students worked with community partners to propose event structures on a farm in Kentucky as part of adaptive reuse of an existing farm into a bourbon distillery. This project explored an adaptive skin system by creating a series of layered and woven aggregated systems of wood that mimic the naturally occurring and humanmade patterns of agricultural landscapes in Kentucky.

"The patterns were deployed across the skin, creating a porous envelope that defines the event space for programmatic use while seamlessly blending into the pastoral landscape. The varied texture and density of the skin similarly filter light to the existing trees and barns on the site. The pavilion brings new life to the existing farm while rooting itself in the atmospheric experience of agritourism through its materiality, organic form and referential patterns."

To watch the animation, click here.

Student: Isaac Peck Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Jill Leckner

Wonderland by Sarah Coviello

"The studio explored formal and spatial combinations. Through a reading of Alice in Wonderland, students produced collages that considered narrative, imagination, contradiction and the theme of normal vs abnormal. These Wonderland collages were further abstracted through pixelation and digital manipulation, selecting one to develop as a 3D topography. Next, they made physical and digital 'balloon animals' inspired by characters and or their characteristics.

"This new fluid language contradicted the pixelated topography, requiring operative combinations, piling, stacking, or nesting relationships between part-to-whole, object and field. A narrative sequence of spaces and programmes – scenes from the book – defined movement and occupation while questioning scale, space, and gravity within the digital design environment. This project aimed to free imagination and thinking by immersion into their Wonderland."

To watch the animation click here.

Student: Sarah Coviello Course: first-year undergraduate Professor: Regina H. Summers

Space of Contemplation by John Stegman

"Students were asked to design a space for contemplation using a double-curved and ruled surface for a fictional site designed using Twin Motion. A CNC foam cutter and a FormLabs 3D printer were used to both conceive the formal structure of the project and to create physical models."

To view the animation click here.

Student: John Stegman Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Mike Silver

Apex Lexington: Automated Electric Car Depot Network and Community Wellness-Fitness Centre by Cameron Mitchell, Kamryn Moore, Sydney Rocha and Jacob Johnson

"This studio investigated the evolving problematics of emerging transportation systems and their spatial, material, cultural, and environmental consequences. The studio sought to develop schemes that give back to the community, unlike much of the earlier paradigm of transportation infrastructural works – many of which had deleterious effects on underserved communities and coincided with red-lining, social bifurcation, and racial inequity.

"The Hybrid Functioned Building Programme includes: car depots – automated parking structures with charging, fueling and servicing capacity; an outdoor fitness and recreation centre made for exercising and wellness; and energy harvesting for capturing and storing ambient sources with a particular emphasis on solar technologies.

"The Apex facility provides two alternative routes to reach the observation level. One way is a processional stair that offers views of the busy street and the ropes course and climbing walls on the site's interior. The other option on the opposite edge of the area is a gondola that provides a way for all types of users to reach the peak and observation deck, ensuring accessibility while providing a compelling spatial experience. The gondola route offers views to the adjacent train track while fully displaying the parking structure.

"Along with the main facility, we have created four other sites in strategic locations around Lexington so everyone can have easy access to similar facilities and to ensure minimal wait times for vehicles that service the community at large. Glue-laminated timber structures are used to support the massive ropes course that sprawls throughout the site, offering a fun way to get outside and exercise.

"The vertical supports of the ropes course mirror the trees on the opposite side of the site, creating a formal relationship between nature and our human-made intervention to integrate the building with its site further. Apex vehicles enter the parking structure through an underground tunnel, keeping it out of the way of the recreation space. Once at their designated parking section, a platform will be called to pick up the vehicle. This operates along with a grid system that allows it to travel to the ground to pick up the car, then return to its original position to store it away."

Students: Cameron Mitchell, Kamryn Moore, Sydney Rocha and Jacob Johnson Course: second-year undergraduate Professor: Angus Eade

Encompass by Eliza-Kate Carter, Megan Kidd and Alyssa Ramsey

"This studio challenged three-person teams to design mixed-use housing in Cincinnati’s West End. At an urban seam between historic neighbourhoods, the site has a tumultuous history defined by local and national racist public policy, redlining practices, urban renewal and current pressures of gentrification. Multi-unit housing in this context needs to address inclusivity and clarify community within this context.

"Other themes explore patterns – organisational, material, graphic – and formal relationships (combinations, operations, seams, gaps) to test legibility in an urban form by simultaneously articulating part-to-part relations and strategically obfuscating edges and seams. These ideas go beyond disciplinary issues of aesthetics, form, and space, to include how individuals define their corporeal edges and construct their public, communal, and private identities.

"Cincinnati’s complex urban history balkanized neighbourhoods through reconfigured infrastructural edges driven by racist public policy. The disparity between neighbourhoods was amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic. Encompass was designed as a heterogeneous and supportive community, where access to flexible work and open-air leisure spaces close to home encourages new forms of community. Using the adaptive, operational techniques of Professor Summers’ Disruptive Continuity exercise, part-to-whole relationships attempt to define specific local conditions while camouflaging and expanding other urban readings.

"Designed as vertically organized micro-communities within the larger whole, our team produced local identity while simultaneously connecting the public spaces to the larger civic body. The street-level edges are eroded by the public program, inviting the city into a porous, mixed retail space – stitching the site to its context as a hub for commerce, leisure, and living within the West End neighbourhood."

Students: Eliza-Kate Carter, Megan Kidd, and Alyssa Ramsey Course: third-year undergraduate Professors: Martin Summers, University of Kentucky and in an advisory capacity Stephen Slaughter, University of Cincinnati

Cultural Restoration by Destini Chenault, Taely Freeman and Connor Guy

"The essence of this housing project revolved around the restoration and amplification of a cultural hub located on a site in the West End neighbourhood district of Cincinnati, Ohio. The West End was historically a rich black community erased for the construction of Interstate I-75.

"Two major buildings adjacent to the site, known as the State and Regal Theatre are unfortunately used to serve as the cultural hub of this neighbourhood. This project aimed to promote a new hub that encouraged reflection, community and interaction between a variety of people.

"The project used a variety of abstract objects that formally combined with one another to carve a large, axial pathway through the site, encouraging circulation from the nearby FC Cincinnati Soccer Stadium to the Over-The-Rhine District in the East. Commercial programmes such as restaurants, bars, and retail stores were located along the perimeter while cultural centres such as a museum, amphitheatre, and the new movie theatre were nestled within the centre to produce an overall micro city for the residents that lived within.

"A variety of unit types were designed according to the location of residential districts along the Western border of the site to allow for privacy. Various studios and workspaces occupied each floor to reinforce ideas of collaboration and allow local artists-in-residency to share their work."

Students: Destini Chenault, Taely Freeman and Connor Guy Course: third-year undergraduate Professors: Martin Summers, University of Kentucky and in an advisory capacity Stephen Slaughter, University of Cincinnati

Partnership content

This school show is a partnership between Dezeen and The University of Kentucky College of Design. Find out more about Dezeen partnership content here.

The post University of Kentucky College of Design presents 12 architecture projects appeared first on Dezeen.

[architectnews]

University of Kentucky College of Design presents 12 architecture projects

Our latest school show from students at the University of Kentucky College of Design includes a car depot that functions as a wellness centre and a housing community built from repurposed material from the railroad industry.

Other projects from the undergraduate and postgraduate students include a farm in Kentucky designed to mimic the surrounding environment's patterns and digitally-manipulated collages referencing Lewis Carroll's Alice and Wonderland.

University of Kentucky College of Design

School: University of Kentucky College of Design Courses:  Undergraduate and graduate studios Professors: Angus Eade, Anne Filson and Jeffrey Johnson, Jill Leckner, Mike McKay, Brian Richter, Gary Rohrbacher, Jason Scroggin, Mike Silver, Brent Sturlaugson, Martin Summers and Stephen Slaughter and Regina H. Summers.

School statement:

"The School of Architecture at the University of Kentucky College of Design offers a four-year undergraduate pre-professional degree and a Master of Architecture degree. The students featured in this festival represent the breadth of our two programmes, with a particular focus on our recently reconsidered undergraduate first-year spring studios, where we have fully integrated digital design and fabrication technologies.

"The theme of the spring semester for the first-year undergraduate studio sequence was to consider the notion of 'Object and Field' and how it relates to the negotiation of small-scale programme, inhabitation, and context. In addition to our pedagogical emphasis on the integration of digital technologies, the other undergraduate and graduate projects selected also represent our school's commitment to engage local issues, such as housing and urban development, that also relate to broader contemporary challenges confronting the discipline at the regional, national, and international level."

Rehabilitated Railroad Communities by Tori Vaughn

"The Commonwealth of Kentucky has long been an ideal laboratory for architectural study. Our state's cities, small towns, and landscapes offer multiple scales and conditions for engagement and intervention, while its distinct heritage, industries, and propensity for innovation provide a wide range of challenges for architecture students to explore. The Commonwealth Studio gives every Master of Architecture student an opportunity to pursue a self-directed, research-intensive design project as a culmination of their architectural education. Students explore contemporary 'local' issues that have global relevance and impact, proposing architectural solutions that positively impact home and beyond.

"Rehabilitated Railroad Communities is a housing development situated on the R.J.Corman Yard in Lexington, Kentucky. The project endeavours to reuse and repurpose materials and equipment from the railroad industry, like shipping containers and train wagons, to minimize environmental impact. The remains of an existing railyard will serve as the skeletal infrastructure for the new community.

"The R.J. Corman Rail Yard now accommodates a green, urban neighbourhood of diverse homes, people and plants. This walkable community is bursting with nature and nearby to many Lexington hot spots. The diversity of housing densities on the site allows for many different demographics of people to call this neighbourhood home. Including all enables the neighbourhood to support a multi-cultural, racial and generational community. The units and aggregation could be adapted and replicated to fit railways and rail yards across the commonwealth and the country."

Student: Tori Vaughn Course:  second-year graduate Professors: Anne Filson and Jeffrey Johnson

  Sawmill Pavilion by Chase Faulkner

"As part of a multidisciplinary grant team, students designed a pavilion to shelter a portable sawmill on the University of Kentucky's campus. After completing an analysis of user needs and site constraints, students also proposed additional functions for the pavilion and its surrounding landscape.

"Limiting the main structural components to mass timber products, the pavilion is intended to showcase the possibilities of building with wooden slabs produced by the sawmill itself. The research and design from this project will be used as a starting point for a future design-build studio in which the pavilion will be constructed.

"This project is intended to curate movement and frame points of interest on the site. This is achieved by using a series of folds to expand and contact volumes that accommodate different scales of programmatic spaces. The faceted cross-laminated timber panels are free to disobey the grid and respond to different constraints by regulating the glulam beam structure. This creates an interactive lighting quality that changes with the variable density of incisions within solid panels. Outside of sawmill operations, the project will serve as a new social hub for students on campus and a link between educational buildings on the site."

Student: Chase Faulkner Course:  second-year undergraduate Professor: Brent Sturlaugson

Toolpaths V Ascend by Ben Thornton

"Toolpath studios explore future architecture and construction from the vantage point of the post-industrial designer. Students discover their agency as designers for a time in the not-too-distant future when they'll collaborate directly with intelligent machines. Through the design of a door, staircase, and window, students discover the parts of a whole.

"The students investigated how architecture can be shaped to make relationships within other architectural entities and among humans, natures and technologies. Students experiment with additive and subtractive digital fabrication techniques at the scale of architectural details, using integrated design, engineering and manufacturing tools that collapse the distance between design and production.

"This project serves as an exploration of the capabilities of and design process for Fusion360s generative design workspace with the final goal of a more efficient cantilever stair. Using a steel-structured cantilever stair as precedent, the structure of the stair was broken into seven chunks comprised of smaller structural members. Each structural member was custom-designed using only the loads on the member and a target of minimizing mass as form driving forces. This focus on minimizing mass based on required loads is visible in the final stair with members toward the bottom with higher compounded loads having higher mass than those above that are supporting a lower load."

Student: Ben Thornton Course:  first-year graduate Professor: Gary Rohrbacher

Interspersed Pastel Commorancy by Trey Barnes

"The theme of the spring semester of the first-year studio sequence is to consider the notion of "Object and Field" and how it relates to the negotiation of small-scale programme, inhabitation and context. These parameters are opportunities to think critically about the work we generate and respond to these architectural design problems with innovative solutions.

"The studio begins with a set of experiments that seek a working relationship between solid, void, and pattern to develop a geometry that is responsive to the conditions of inhabitation, programme and site."

Click here to watch the animation.

Student: Trey Barnes Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Jason Scroggin

CloudForm Pavillion by Katherine White

"Working with a local Bourbon Distiller, the studio proposes a pavilion as part of a farm and distillery masterplan with a focus on visitor experience, bourbon production and history. Students were charged with exploring procedural and parametric design methods focused on formal geometric variety, combination, aesthetic, flexibility and adaptation to programmatic constraints.

"Design elements or 'components' developed during the investigative phase of the studio provided a baseline condition in addressing the physical constraints of the project programme. This allowed students to explore tectonic relationships, materiality, spatial quality and site-specificity in a contemporary context. Interoperability remained a key theme of the studio, challenging students to address the design prompt using a wide variety of digital methodologies, visualization, animation and digital-physical fabrication techniques."

Student: Katherine White Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Brian Richter

Forma by Lauren Henning

"The goal of the Forma studio was to test various thermo-former techniques to achieve an emerging formal typology. The unexpected outcomes were desired to search for something unknown and without preconception – allowing the thermo-forming process to influence the outcome of the form and surface condition."

Student: Lauren Henning Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Mike McKay

Kentucky Distillery Event Pavilion by Isaac Peck

"Students worked with community partners to propose event structures on a farm in Kentucky as part of adaptive reuse of an existing farm into a bourbon distillery. This project explored an adaptive skin system by creating a series of layered and woven aggregated systems of wood that mimic the naturally occurring and humanmade patterns of agricultural landscapes in Kentucky.

"The patterns were deployed across the skin, creating a porous envelope that defines the event space for programmatic use while seamlessly blending into the pastoral landscape. The varied texture and density of the skin similarly filter light to the existing trees and barns on the site. The pavilion brings new life to the existing farm while rooting itself in the atmospheric experience of agritourism through its materiality, organic form and referential patterns."

To watch the animation, click here.

Student: Isaac Peck Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Jill Leckner

Wonderland by Sarah Coviello

"The studio explored formal and spatial combinations. Through a reading of Alice in Wonderland, students produced collages that considered narrative, imagination, contradiction and the theme of normal vs abnormal. These Wonderland collages were further abstracted through pixelation and digital manipulation, selecting one to develop as a 3D topography. Next, they made physical and digital 'balloon animals' inspired by characters and or their characteristics.

"This new fluid language contradicted the pixelated topography, requiring operative combinations, piling, stacking, or nesting relationships between part-to-whole, object and field. A narrative sequence of spaces and programmes – scenes from the book – defined movement and occupation while questioning scale, space, and gravity within the digital design environment. This project aimed to free imagination and thinking by immersion into their Wonderland."

To watch the animation click here.

Student: Sarah Coviello Course: first-year undergraduate Professor: Regina H. Summers

Space of Contemplation by John Stegman

"Students were asked to design a space for contemplation using a double-curved and ruled surface for a fictional site designed using Twin Motion. A CNC foam cutter and a FormLabs 3D printer were used to both conceive the formal structure of the project and to create physical models."

To view the animation click here.

Student: John Stegman Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Mike Silver

Apex Lexington: Automated Electric Car Depot Network and Community Wellness-Fitness Centre by Cameron Mitchell, Kamryn Moore, Sydney Rocha and Jacob Johnson

"This studio investigated the evolving problematics of emerging transportation systems and their spatial, material, cultural, and environmental consequences. The studio sought to develop schemes that give back to the community, unlike much of the earlier paradigm of transportation infrastructural works – many of which had deleterious effects on underserved communities and coincided with red-lining, social bifurcation, and racial inequity.

"The Hybrid Functioned Building Programme includes: car depots – automated parking structures with charging, fueling and servicing capacity; an outdoor fitness and recreation centre made for exercising and wellness; and energy harvesting for capturing and storing ambient sources with a particular emphasis on solar technologies.

"The Apex facility provides two alternative routes to reach the observation level. One way is a processional stair that offers views of the busy street and the ropes course and climbing walls on the site's interior. The other option on the opposite edge of the area is a gondola that provides a way for all types of users to reach the peak and observation deck, ensuring accessibility while providing a compelling spatial experience. The gondola route offers views to the adjacent train track while fully displaying the parking structure.

"Along with the main facility, we have created four other sites in strategic locations around Lexington so everyone can have easy access to similar facilities and to ensure minimal wait times for vehicles that service the community at large. Glue-laminated timber structures are used to support the massive ropes course that sprawls throughout the site, offering a fun way to get outside and exercise.

"The vertical supports of the ropes course mirror the trees on the opposite side of the site, creating a formal relationship between nature and our human-made intervention to integrate the building with its site further. Apex vehicles enter the parking structure through an underground tunnel, keeping it out of the way of the recreation space. Once at their designated parking section, a platform will be called to pick up the vehicle. This operates along with a grid system that allows it to travel to the ground to pick up the car, then return to its original position to store it away."

Students: Cameron Mitchell, Kamryn Moore, Sydney Rocha and Jacob Johnson Course: second-year undergraduate Professor: Angus Eade

Encompass by Eliza-Kate Carter, Megan Kidd and Alyssa Ramsey

"This studio challenged three-person teams to design mixed-use housing in Cincinnati’s West End. At an urban seam between historic neighbourhoods, the site has a tumultuous history defined by local and national racist public policy, redlining practices, urban renewal and current pressures of gentrification. Multi-unit housing in this context needs to address inclusivity and clarify community within this context.

"Other themes explore patterns – organisational, material, graphic – and formal relationships (combinations, operations, seams, gaps) to test legibility in an urban form by simultaneously articulating part-to-part relations and strategically obfuscating edges and seams. These ideas go beyond disciplinary issues of aesthetics, form, and space, to include how individuals define their corporeal edges and construct their public, communal, and private identities.

"Cincinnati’s complex urban history balkanized neighbourhoods through reconfigured infrastructural edges driven by racist public policy. The disparity between neighbourhoods was amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic. Encompass was designed as a heterogeneous and supportive community, where access to flexible work and open-air leisure spaces close to home encourages new forms of community. Using the adaptive, operational techniques of Professor Summers’ Disruptive Continuity exercise, part-to-whole relationships attempt to define specific local conditions while camouflaging and expanding other urban readings.

"Designed as vertically organized micro-communities within the larger whole, our team produced local identity while simultaneously connecting the public spaces to the larger civic body. The street-level edges are eroded by the public program, inviting the city into a porous, mixed retail space – stitching the site to its context as a hub for commerce, leisure, and living within the West End neighbourhood."

Students: Eliza-Kate Carter, Megan Kidd, and Alyssa Ramsey Course: third-year undergraduate Professors: Martin Summers, University of Kentucky and in an advisory capacity Stephen Slaughter, University of Cincinnati

Cultural Restoration by Destini Chenault, Taely Freeman and Connor Guy

"The essence of this housing project revolved around the restoration and amplification of a cultural hub located on a site in the West End neighbourhood district of Cincinnati, Ohio. The West End was historically a rich black community erased for the construction of Interstate I-75.

"Two major buildings adjacent to the site, known as the State and Regal Theatre are unfortunately used to serve as the cultural hub of this neighbourhood. This project aimed to promote a new hub that encouraged reflection, community and interaction between a variety of people.

"The project used a variety of abstract objects that formally combined with one another to carve a large, axial pathway through the site, encouraging circulation from the nearby FC Cincinnati Soccer Stadium to the Over-The-Rhine District in the East. Commercial programmes such as restaurants, bars, and retail stores were located along the perimeter while cultural centres such as a museum, amphitheatre, and the new movie theatre were nestled within the centre to produce an overall micro city for the residents that lived within.

"A variety of unit types were designed according to the location of residential districts along the Western border of the site to allow for privacy. Various studios and workspaces occupied each floor to reinforce ideas of collaboration and allow local artists-in-residency to share their work."

Students: Destini Chenault, Taely Freeman and Connor Guy Course: third-year undergraduate Professors: Martin Summers, University of Kentucky and in an advisory capacity Stephen Slaughter, University of Cincinnati

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University of Kentucky College of Design presents 12 architecture projects

Our latest school show from students at the University of Kentucky College of Design includes a car depot that functions as a wellness centre and a housing community built from repurposed material from the railroad industry.

Other projects from the undergraduate and postgraduate students include a farm in Kentucky designed to mimic the surrounding environment's patterns and digitally-manipulated collages referencing Lewis Carroll's Alice and Wonderland.

University of Kentucky College of Design

School: University of Kentucky College of Design Courses:  Undergraduate and graduate studios Professors: Angus Eade, Anne Filson and Jeffrey Johnson, Jill Leckner, Mike McKay, Brian Richter, Gary Rohrbacher, Jason Scroggin, Mike Silver, Brent Sturlaugson, Martin Summers and Stephen Slaughter and Regina H. Summers.

School statement:

"The School of Architecture at the University of Kentucky College of Design offers a four-year undergraduate pre-professional degree and a Master of Architecture degree. The students featured in this festival represent the breadth of our two programmes, with a particular focus on our recently reconsidered undergraduate first-year spring studios, where we have fully integrated digital design and fabrication technologies.

"The theme of the spring semester for the first-year undergraduate studio sequence was to consider the notion of 'Object and Field' and how it relates to the negotiation of small-scale programme, inhabitation, and context. In addition to our pedagogical emphasis on the integration of digital technologies, the other undergraduate and graduate projects selected also represent our school's commitment to engage local issues, such as housing and urban development, that also relate to broader contemporary challenges confronting the discipline at the regional, national, and international level."

Rehabilitated Railroad Communities by Tori Vaughn

"The Commonwealth of Kentucky has long been an ideal laboratory for architectural study. Our state's cities, small towns, and landscapes offer multiple scales and conditions for engagement and intervention, while its distinct heritage, industries, and propensity for innovation provide a wide range of challenges for architecture students to explore. The Commonwealth Studio gives every Master of Architecture student an opportunity to pursue a self-directed, research-intensive design project as a culmination of their architectural education. Students explore contemporary 'local' issues that have global relevance and impact, proposing architectural solutions that positively impact home and beyond.

"Rehabilitated Railroad Communities is a housing development situated on the R.J.Corman Yard in Lexington, Kentucky. The project endeavours to reuse and repurpose materials and equipment from the railroad industry, like shipping containers and train wagons, to minimize environmental impact. The remains of an existing railyard will serve as the skeletal infrastructure for the new community.

"The R.J. Corman Rail Yard now accommodates a green, urban neighbourhood of diverse homes, people and plants. This walkable community is bursting with nature and nearby to many Lexington hot spots. The diversity of housing densities on the site allows for many different demographics of people to call this neighbourhood home. Including all enables the neighbourhood to support a multi-cultural, racial and generational community. The units and aggregation could be adapted and replicated to fit railways and rail yards across the commonwealth and the country."

Student: Tori Vaughn Course:  second-year graduate Professors: Anne Filson and Jeffrey Johnson

  Sawmill Pavilion by Chase Faulkner

"As part of a multidisciplinary grant team, students designed a pavilion to shelter a portable sawmill on the University of Kentucky's campus. After completing an analysis of user needs and site constraints, students also proposed additional functions for the pavilion and its surrounding landscape.

"Limiting the main structural components to mass timber products, the pavilion is intended to showcase the possibilities of building with wooden slabs produced by the sawmill itself. The research and design from this project will be used as a starting point for a future design-build studio in which the pavilion will be constructed.

"This project is intended to curate movement and frame points of interest on the site. This is achieved by using a series of folds to expand and contact volumes that accommodate different scales of programmatic spaces. The faceted cross-laminated timber panels are free to disobey the grid and respond to different constraints by regulating the glulam beam structure. This creates an interactive lighting quality that changes with the variable density of incisions within solid panels. Outside of sawmill operations, the project will serve as a new social hub for students on campus and a link between educational buildings on the site."

Student: Chase Faulkner Course:  second-year undergraduate Professor: Brent Sturlaugson

Toolpaths V Ascend by Ben Thornton

"Toolpath studios explore future architecture and construction from the vantage point of the post-industrial designer. Students discover their agency as designers for a time in the not-too-distant future when they'll collaborate directly with intelligent machines. Through the design of a door, staircase, and window, students discover the parts of a whole.

"The students investigated how architecture can be shaped to make relationships within other architectural entities and among humans, natures and technologies. Students experiment with additive and subtractive digital fabrication techniques at the scale of architectural details, using integrated design, engineering and manufacturing tools that collapse the distance between design and production.

"This project serves as an exploration of the capabilities of and design process for Fusion360s generative design workspace with the final goal of a more efficient cantilever stair. Using a steel-structured cantilever stair as precedent, the structure of the stair was broken into seven chunks comprised of smaller structural members. Each structural member was custom-designed using only the loads on the member and a target of minimizing mass as form driving forces. This focus on minimizing mass based on required loads is visible in the final stair with members toward the bottom with higher compounded loads having higher mass than those above that are supporting a lower load."

Student: Ben Thornton Course:  first-year graduate Professor: Gary Rohrbacher

Interspersed Pastel Commorancy by Trey Barnes

"The theme of the spring semester of the first-year studio sequence is to consider the notion of "Object and Field" and how it relates to the negotiation of small-scale programme, inhabitation and context. These parameters are opportunities to think critically about the work we generate and respond to these architectural design problems with innovative solutions.

"The studio begins with a set of experiments that seek a working relationship between solid, void, and pattern to develop a geometry that is responsive to the conditions of inhabitation, programme and site."

Click here to watch the animation.

Student: Trey Barnes Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Jason Scroggin

CloudForm Pavillion by Katherine White

"Working with a local Bourbon Distiller, the studio proposes a pavilion as part of a farm and distillery masterplan with a focus on visitor experience, bourbon production and history. Students were charged with exploring procedural and parametric design methods focused on formal geometric variety, combination, aesthetic, flexibility and adaptation to programmatic constraints.

"Design elements or 'components' developed during the investigative phase of the studio provided a baseline condition in addressing the physical constraints of the project programme. This allowed students to explore tectonic relationships, materiality, spatial quality and site-specificity in a contemporary context. Interoperability remained a key theme of the studio, challenging students to address the design prompt using a wide variety of digital methodologies, visualization, animation and digital-physical fabrication techniques."

Student: Katherine White Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Brian Richter

Forma by Lauren Henning

"The goal of the Forma studio was to test various thermo-former techniques to achieve an emerging formal typology. The unexpected outcomes were desired to search for something unknown and without preconception – allowing the thermo-forming process to influence the outcome of the form and surface condition."

Student: Lauren Henning Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Mike McKay

Kentucky Distillery Event Pavilion by Isaac Peck

"Students worked with community partners to propose event structures on a farm in Kentucky as part of adaptive reuse of an existing farm into a bourbon distillery. This project explored an adaptive skin system by creating a series of layered and woven aggregated systems of wood that mimic the naturally occurring and humanmade patterns of agricultural landscapes in Kentucky.

"The patterns were deployed across the skin, creating a porous envelope that defines the event space for programmatic use while seamlessly blending into the pastoral landscape. The varied texture and density of the skin similarly filter light to the existing trees and barns on the site. The pavilion brings new life to the existing farm while rooting itself in the atmospheric experience of agritourism through its materiality, organic form and referential patterns."

To watch the animation, click here.

Student: Isaac Peck Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Jill Leckner

Wonderland by Sarah Coviello

"The studio explored formal and spatial combinations. Through a reading of Alice in Wonderland, students produced collages that considered narrative, imagination, contradiction and the theme of normal vs abnormal. These Wonderland collages were further abstracted through pixelation and digital manipulation, selecting one to develop as a 3D topography. Next, they made physical and digital 'balloon animals' inspired by characters and or their characteristics.

"This new fluid language contradicted the pixelated topography, requiring operative combinations, piling, stacking, or nesting relationships between part-to-whole, object and field. A narrative sequence of spaces and programmes – scenes from the book – defined movement and occupation while questioning scale, space, and gravity within the digital design environment. This project aimed to free imagination and thinking by immersion into their Wonderland."

To watch the animation click here.

Student: Sarah Coviello Course: first-year undergraduate Professor: Regina H. Summers

Space of Contemplation by John Stegman

"Students were asked to design a space for contemplation using a double-curved and ruled surface for a fictional site designed using Twin Motion. A CNC foam cutter and a FormLabs 3D printer were used to both conceive the formal structure of the project and to create physical models."

To view the animation click here.

Student: John Stegman Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Mike Silver

Apex Lexington: Automated Electric Car Depot Network and Community Wellness-Fitness Centre by Cameron Mitchell, Kamryn Moore, Sydney Rocha and Jacob Johnson

"This studio investigated the evolving problematics of emerging transportation systems and their spatial, material, cultural, and environmental consequences. The studio sought to develop schemes that give back to the community, unlike much of the earlier paradigm of transportation infrastructural works – many of which had deleterious effects on underserved communities and coincided with red-lining, social bifurcation, and racial inequity.

"The Hybrid Functioned Building Programme includes: car depots – automated parking structures with charging, fueling and servicing capacity; an outdoor fitness and recreation centre made for exercising and wellness; and energy harvesting for capturing and storing ambient sources with a particular emphasis on solar technologies.

"The Apex facility provides two alternative routes to reach the observation level. One way is a processional stair that offers views of the busy street and the ropes course and climbing walls on the site's interior. The other option on the opposite edge of the area is a gondola that provides a way for all types of users to reach the peak and observation deck, ensuring accessibility while providing a compelling spatial experience. The gondola route offers views to the adjacent train track while fully displaying the parking structure.

"Along with the main facility, we have created four other sites in strategic locations around Lexington so everyone can have easy access to similar facilities and to ensure minimal wait times for vehicles that service the community at large. Glue-laminated timber structures are used to support the massive ropes course that sprawls throughout the site, offering a fun way to get outside and exercise.

"The vertical supports of the ropes course mirror the trees on the opposite side of the site, creating a formal relationship between nature and our human-made intervention to integrate the building with its site further. Apex vehicles enter the parking structure through an underground tunnel, keeping it out of the way of the recreation space. Once at their designated parking section, a platform will be called to pick up the vehicle. This operates along with a grid system that allows it to travel to the ground to pick up the car, then return to its original position to store it away."

Students: Cameron Mitchell, Kamryn Moore, Sydney Rocha and Jacob Johnson Course: second-year undergraduate Professor: Angus Eade

Encompass by Eliza-Kate Carter, Megan Kidd and Alyssa Ramsey

"This studio challenged three-person teams to design mixed-use housing in Cincinnati’s West End. At an urban seam between historic neighbourhoods, the site has a tumultuous history defined by local and national racist public policy, redlining practices, urban renewal and current pressures of gentrification. Multi-unit housing in this context needs to address inclusivity and clarify community within this context.

"Other themes explore patterns – organisational, material, graphic – and formal relationships (combinations, operations, seams, gaps) to test legibility in an urban form by simultaneously articulating part-to-part relations and strategically obfuscating edges and seams. These ideas go beyond disciplinary issues of aesthetics, form, and space, to include how individuals define their corporeal edges and construct their public, communal, and private identities.

"Cincinnati’s complex urban history balkanized neighbourhoods through reconfigured infrastructural edges driven by racist public policy. The disparity between neighbourhoods was amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic. Encompass was designed as a heterogeneous and supportive community, where access to flexible work and open-air leisure spaces close to home encourages new forms of community. Using the adaptive, operational techniques of Professor Summers’ Disruptive Continuity exercise, part-to-whole relationships attempt to define specific local conditions while camouflaging and expanding other urban readings.

"Designed as vertically organized micro-communities within the larger whole, our team produced local identity while simultaneously connecting the public spaces to the larger civic body. The street-level edges are eroded by the public program, inviting the city into a porous, mixed retail space – stitching the site to its context as a hub for commerce, leisure, and living within the West End neighbourhood."

Students: Eliza-Kate Carter, Megan Kidd, and Alyssa Ramsey Course: third-year undergraduate Professors: Martin Summers, University of Kentucky and in an advisory capacity Stephen Slaughter, University of Cincinnati

Cultural Restoration by Destini Chenault, Taely Freeman and Connor Guy

"The essence of this housing project revolved around the restoration and amplification of a cultural hub located on a site in the West End neighbourhood district of Cincinnati, Ohio. The West End was historically a rich black community erased for the construction of Interstate I-75.

"Two major buildings adjacent to the site, known as the State and Regal Theatre are unfortunately used to serve as the cultural hub of this neighbourhood. This project aimed to promote a new hub that encouraged reflection, community and interaction between a variety of people.

"The project used a variety of abstract objects that formally combined with one another to carve a large, axial pathway through the site, encouraging circulation from the nearby FC Cincinnati Soccer Stadium to the Over-The-Rhine District in the East. Commercial programmes such as restaurants, bars, and retail stores were located along the perimeter while cultural centres such as a museum, amphitheatre, and the new movie theatre were nestled within the centre to produce an overall micro city for the residents that lived within.

"A variety of unit types were designed according to the location of residential districts along the Western border of the site to allow for privacy. Various studios and workspaces occupied each floor to reinforce ideas of collaboration and allow local artists-in-residency to share their work."

Students: Destini Chenault, Taely Freeman and Connor Guy Course: third-year undergraduate Professors: Martin Summers, University of Kentucky and in an advisory capacity Stephen Slaughter, University of Cincinnati

Partnership content

This school show is a partnership between Dezeen and The University of Kentucky College of Design. Find out more about Dezeen partnership content here.

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[architectnews]

University of Kentucky College of Design presents 12 architecture projects

Our latest school show from students at the University of Kentucky College of Design includes a car depot that functions as a wellness centre and a housing community built from repurposed material from the railroad industry.

Other projects from the undergraduate and postgraduate students include a farm in Kentucky designed to mimic the surrounding environment's patterns and digitally-manipulated collages referencing Lewis Carroll's Alice and Wonderland.

University of Kentucky College of Design

School: University of Kentucky College of Design Courses:  Undergraduate and graduate studios Professors: Angus Eade, Anne Filson and Jeffrey Johnson, Jill Leckner, Mike McKay, Brian Richter, Gary Rohrbacher, Jason Scroggin, Mike Silver, Brent Sturlaugson, Martin Summers and Stephen Slaughter and Regina H. Summers.

School statement:

"The School of Architecture at the University of Kentucky College of Design offers a four-year undergraduate pre-professional degree and a Master of Architecture degree. The students featured in this festival represent the breadth of our two programmes, with a particular focus on our recently reconsidered undergraduate first-year spring studios, where we have fully integrated digital design and fabrication technologies.

"The theme of the spring semester for the first-year undergraduate studio sequence was to consider the notion of 'Object and Field' and how it relates to the negotiation of small-scale programme, inhabitation, and context. In addition to our pedagogical emphasis on the integration of digital technologies, the other undergraduate and graduate projects selected also represent our school's commitment to engage local issues, such as housing and urban development, that also relate to broader contemporary challenges confronting the discipline at the regional, national, and international level."

Rehabilitated Railroad Communities by Tori Vaughn

"The Commonwealth of Kentucky has long been an ideal laboratory for architectural study. Our state's cities, small towns, and landscapes offer multiple scales and conditions for engagement and intervention, while its distinct heritage, industries, and propensity for innovation provide a wide range of challenges for architecture students to explore. The Commonwealth Studio gives every Master of Architecture student an opportunity to pursue a self-directed, research-intensive design project as a culmination of their architectural education. Students explore contemporary 'local' issues that have global relevance and impact, proposing architectural solutions that positively impact home and beyond.

"Rehabilitated Railroad Communities is a housing development situated on the R.J.Corman Yard in Lexington, Kentucky. The project endeavours to reuse and repurpose materials and equipment from the railroad industry, like shipping containers and train wagons, to minimize environmental impact. The remains of an existing railyard will serve as the skeletal infrastructure for the new community.

"The R.J. Corman Rail Yard now accommodates a green, urban neighbourhood of diverse homes, people and plants. This walkable community is bursting with nature and nearby to many Lexington hot spots. The diversity of housing densities on the site allows for many different demographics of people to call this neighbourhood home. Including all enables the neighbourhood to support a multi-cultural, racial and generational community. The units and aggregation could be adapted and replicated to fit railways and rail yards across the commonwealth and the country."

Student: Tori Vaughn Course:  second-year graduate Professors: Anne Filson and Jeffrey Johnson

  Sawmill Pavilion by Chase Faulkner

"As part of a multidisciplinary grant team, students designed a pavilion to shelter a portable sawmill on the University of Kentucky's campus. After completing an analysis of user needs and site constraints, students also proposed additional functions for the pavilion and its surrounding landscape.

"Limiting the main structural components to mass timber products, the pavilion is intended to showcase the possibilities of building with wooden slabs produced by the sawmill itself. The research and design from this project will be used as a starting point for a future design-build studio in which the pavilion will be constructed.

"This project is intended to curate movement and frame points of interest on the site. This is achieved by using a series of folds to expand and contact volumes that accommodate different scales of programmatic spaces. The faceted cross-laminated timber panels are free to disobey the grid and respond to different constraints by regulating the glulam beam structure. This creates an interactive lighting quality that changes with the variable density of incisions within solid panels. Outside of sawmill operations, the project will serve as a new social hub for students on campus and a link between educational buildings on the site."

Student: Chase Faulkner Course:  second-year undergraduate Professor: Brent Sturlaugson

Toolpaths V Ascend by Ben Thornton

"Toolpath studios explore future architecture and construction from the vantage point of the post-industrial designer. Students discover their agency as designers for a time in the not-too-distant future when they'll collaborate directly with intelligent machines. Through the design of a door, staircase, and window, students discover the parts of a whole.

"The students investigated how architecture can be shaped to make relationships within other architectural entities and among humans, natures and technologies. Students experiment with additive and subtractive digital fabrication techniques at the scale of architectural details, using integrated design, engineering and manufacturing tools that collapse the distance between design and production.

"This project serves as an exploration of the capabilities of and design process for Fusion360s generative design workspace with the final goal of a more efficient cantilever stair. Using a steel-structured cantilever stair as precedent, the structure of the stair was broken into seven chunks comprised of smaller structural members. Each structural member was custom-designed using only the loads on the member and a target of minimizing mass as form driving forces. This focus on minimizing mass based on required loads is visible in the final stair with members toward the bottom with higher compounded loads having higher mass than those above that are supporting a lower load."

Student: Ben Thornton Course:  first-year graduate Professor: Gary Rohrbacher

Interspersed Pastel Commorancy by Trey Barnes

"The theme of the spring semester of the first-year studio sequence is to consider the notion of "Object and Field" and how it relates to the negotiation of small-scale programme, inhabitation and context. These parameters are opportunities to think critically about the work we generate and respond to these architectural design problems with innovative solutions.

"The studio begins with a set of experiments that seek a working relationship between solid, void, and pattern to develop a geometry that is responsive to the conditions of inhabitation, programme and site."

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Student: Trey Barnes Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Jason Scroggin

CloudForm Pavillion by Katherine White

"Working with a local Bourbon Distiller, the studio proposes a pavilion as part of a farm and distillery masterplan with a focus on visitor experience, bourbon production and history. Students were charged with exploring procedural and parametric design methods focused on formal geometric variety, combination, aesthetic, flexibility and adaptation to programmatic constraints.

"Design elements or 'components' developed during the investigative phase of the studio provided a baseline condition in addressing the physical constraints of the project programme. This allowed students to explore tectonic relationships, materiality, spatial quality and site-specificity in a contemporary context. Interoperability remained a key theme of the studio, challenging students to address the design prompt using a wide variety of digital methodologies, visualization, animation and digital-physical fabrication techniques."

Student: Katherine White Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Brian Richter

Forma by Lauren Henning

"The goal of the Forma studio was to test various thermo-former techniques to achieve an emerging formal typology. The unexpected outcomes were desired to search for something unknown and without preconception – allowing the thermo-forming process to influence the outcome of the form and surface condition."

Student: Lauren Henning Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Mike McKay

Kentucky Distillery Event Pavilion by Isaac Peck

"Students worked with community partners to propose event structures on a farm in Kentucky as part of adaptive reuse of an existing farm into a bourbon distillery. This project explored an adaptive skin system by creating a series of layered and woven aggregated systems of wood that mimic the naturally occurring and humanmade patterns of agricultural landscapes in Kentucky.

"The patterns were deployed across the skin, creating a porous envelope that defines the event space for programmatic use while seamlessly blending into the pastoral landscape. The varied texture and density of the skin similarly filter light to the existing trees and barns on the site. The pavilion brings new life to the existing farm while rooting itself in the atmospheric experience of agritourism through its materiality, organic form and referential patterns."

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Student: Isaac Peck Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Jill Leckner

Wonderland by Sarah Coviello

"The studio explored formal and spatial combinations. Through a reading of Alice in Wonderland, students produced collages that considered narrative, imagination, contradiction and the theme of normal vs abnormal. These Wonderland collages were further abstracted through pixelation and digital manipulation, selecting one to develop as a 3D topography. Next, they made physical and digital 'balloon animals' inspired by characters and or their characteristics.

"This new fluid language contradicted the pixelated topography, requiring operative combinations, piling, stacking, or nesting relationships between part-to-whole, object and field. A narrative sequence of spaces and programmes – scenes from the book – defined movement and occupation while questioning scale, space, and gravity within the digital design environment. This project aimed to free imagination and thinking by immersion into their Wonderland."

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Student: Sarah Coviello Course: first-year undergraduate Professor: Regina H. Summers

Space of Contemplation by John Stegman

"Students were asked to design a space for contemplation using a double-curved and ruled surface for a fictional site designed using Twin Motion. A CNC foam cutter and a FormLabs 3D printer were used to both conceive the formal structure of the project and to create physical models."

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Student: John Stegman Course:  first-year undergraduate Professor: Mike Silver

Apex Lexington: Automated Electric Car Depot Network and Community Wellness-Fitness Centre by Cameron Mitchell, Kamryn Moore, Sydney Rocha and Jacob Johnson

"This studio investigated the evolving problematics of emerging transportation systems and their spatial, material, cultural, and environmental consequences. The studio sought to develop schemes that give back to the community, unlike much of the earlier paradigm of transportation infrastructural works – many of which had deleterious effects on underserved communities and coincided with red-lining, social bifurcation, and racial inequity.

"The Hybrid Functioned Building Programme includes: car depots – automated parking structures with charging, fueling and servicing capacity; an outdoor fitness and recreation centre made for exercising and wellness; and energy harvesting for capturing and storing ambient sources with a particular emphasis on solar technologies.

"The Apex facility provides two alternative routes to reach the observation level. One way is a processional stair that offers views of the busy street and the ropes course and climbing walls on the site's interior. The other option on the opposite edge of the area is a gondola that provides a way for all types of users to reach the peak and observation deck, ensuring accessibility while providing a compelling spatial experience. The gondola route offers views to the adjacent train track while fully displaying the parking structure.

"Along with the main facility, we have created four other sites in strategic locations around Lexington so everyone can have easy access to similar facilities and to ensure minimal wait times for vehicles that service the community at large. Glue-laminated timber structures are used to support the massive ropes course that sprawls throughout the site, offering a fun way to get outside and exercise.

"The vertical supports of the ropes course mirror the trees on the opposite side of the site, creating a formal relationship between nature and our human-made intervention to integrate the building with its site further. Apex vehicles enter the parking structure through an underground tunnel, keeping it out of the way of the recreation space. Once at their designated parking section, a platform will be called to pick up the vehicle. This operates along with a grid system that allows it to travel to the ground to pick up the car, then return to its original position to store it away."

Students: Cameron Mitchell, Kamryn Moore, Sydney Rocha and Jacob Johnson Course: second-year undergraduate Professor: Angus Eade

Encompass by Eliza-Kate Carter, Megan Kidd and Alyssa Ramsey

"This studio challenged three-person teams to design mixed-use housing in Cincinnati’s West End. At an urban seam between historic neighbourhoods, the site has a tumultuous history defined by local and national racist public policy, redlining practices, urban renewal and current pressures of gentrification. Multi-unit housing in this context needs to address inclusivity and clarify community within this context.

"Other themes explore patterns – organisational, material, graphic – and formal relationships (combinations, operations, seams, gaps) to test legibility in an urban form by simultaneously articulating part-to-part relations and strategically obfuscating edges and seams. These ideas go beyond disciplinary issues of aesthetics, form, and space, to include how individuals define their corporeal edges and construct their public, communal, and private identities.

"Cincinnati’s complex urban history balkanized neighbourhoods through reconfigured infrastructural edges driven by racist public policy. The disparity between neighbourhoods was amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic. Encompass was designed as a heterogeneous and supportive community, where access to flexible work and open-air leisure spaces close to home encourages new forms of community. Using the adaptive, operational techniques of Professor Summers’ Disruptive Continuity exercise, part-to-whole relationships attempt to define specific local conditions while camouflaging and expanding other urban readings.

"Designed as vertically organized micro-communities within the larger whole, our team produced local identity while simultaneously connecting the public spaces to the larger civic body. The street-level edges are eroded by the public program, inviting the city into a porous, mixed retail space – stitching the site to its context as a hub for commerce, leisure, and living within the West End neighbourhood."

Students: Eliza-Kate Carter, Megan Kidd, and Alyssa Ramsey Course: third-year undergraduate Professors: Martin Summers, University of Kentucky and in an advisory capacity Stephen Slaughter, University of Cincinnati

Cultural Restoration by Destini Chenault, Taely Freeman and Connor Guy

"The essence of this housing project revolved around the restoration and amplification of a cultural hub located on a site in the West End neighbourhood district of Cincinnati, Ohio. The West End was historically a rich black community erased for the construction of Interstate I-75.

"Two major buildings adjacent to the site, known as the State and Regal Theatre are unfortunately used to serve as the cultural hub of this neighbourhood. This project aimed to promote a new hub that encouraged reflection, community and interaction between a variety of people.

"The project used a variety of abstract objects that formally combined with one another to carve a large, axial pathway through the site, encouraging circulation from the nearby FC Cincinnati Soccer Stadium to the Over-The-Rhine District in the East. Commercial programmes such as restaurants, bars, and retail stores were located along the perimeter while cultural centres such as a museum, amphitheatre, and the new movie theatre were nestled within the centre to produce an overall micro city for the residents that lived within.

"A variety of unit types were designed according to the location of residential districts along the Western border of the site to allow for privacy. Various studios and workspaces occupied each floor to reinforce ideas of collaboration and allow local artists-in-residency to share their work."

Students: Destini Chenault, Taely Freeman and Connor Guy Course: third-year undergraduate Professors: Martin Summers, University of Kentucky and in an advisory capacity Stephen Slaughter, University of Cincinnati

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